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In start of long operation, Fukushima removes first fuel rods
2013-11-21 10:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The operator of Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant completed on Thursday the removal of the first fuel rods from a cooling pool high up in a badly damaged reactor building, a rare success in the often fraught battle to control the site. The batch of 22 unused fuel assemblies, which each contain 50-70 of the fuel rods, was transferred by a trailer to a safer storage pool, the last day of a four-day operation, Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco, said in a statement. The company must carefully...
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